THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1937.
THE
Governor Down With
WORLD Tonsilitis
A
GOES BY
DISTRAUGHT correspondent wants me to help him give up smoking.
I don't quite know why he comes to me, but I sympathise with him, having often tried to do the same thing myself and always failing.
But I suggest the following- Take three weeks' leave. Spend the first week in church. Spend the second week in the public library. Spend the third week in hospital. You'll probably have to anyway.
At the end of that time you will have a knowledge of religion, liter- ature and medicine and you will not have smoked.
I guarantee this method to be
A communique issued from Gov- ernment House last night states:-
The Governor, having failed to throw off an attack of Ton silitis which started on Sunday last, is constrained on medical advice to cancel all his engage- ments until Monday morning next. His Excellency, who deep- ly regrets a necessity- which involves his inability to attend. to-morrow's Anglo Chinese Tif- fin, the St. Patrick's Ball and Saturday's races, will transfer to Fanling Lodge to-morrow for recuperation. Lady Caldecott's engagements will not, it is hop- ed, be affected.
FRENCH ADMIRAL
ARRIVES
infallible. I tried something like Cruiser Staying Here
it once and, at the end of three weeks I was only smoking fifty a day instead of seventy-five, so there must be something in it. pending).
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For Eight Days
The flagship of the French Far Easter Squadron, the Lamotte Picquet, arrived in Hong Kon [this morning from Manila with Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief, JP. Esteva, on board.
I see from a home paper that a
On arrival, a salute of 21 guns leather exhibition has been held at
was fired by the incoming cruiser, Charing Cross. Among the hibits is a piece of leather marked to which the Fort Battery replied. "human skin." It was apparently Afterwards, HMS. Tamar fired another specimen of that gruesome the Vice-Admiral and the Lamotte la salute of 15 guns in honour of skill which was as ready to turn the human skin
as the
|Picquet accorded the Commodore a choicest
salute of 11 guns. lambskin into leather.
The French cruiser is staying This reminds me of an exhibit I
here until March 20 when she will once saw at Bury St. Edmunds. It was a record of the trial of a nine honour of the visit will be held at proceed to Shanghai. A soirée in
teenth-century murderer. The
the French Consulate on March 18. volume was bound in a material
It is learned that Vice-Admiral that looked like brown calf but con- Le Bigot is coming out to the Far tained an inscription to the effect East and will take over command that the binding was the skin of from Vice-Admiral Esteva on May the murderer, taken from the body 15. after execution and tanned by the surgeon to the Suffolk Hospital
to the s
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If you have ever been into the public library at Exeter you may have seen a similar grim exhibit. It is the skin of a man sentenced to death for murder of his wife President Roosevelt yesterday and now used as book binding. It left for Warm Springs, Georgia, was, as far as I can recollect, of a for a holiday.
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dull ivory colour, and nice and soft The Chief Executive was accom to the touch. The only shock I had panied by a party of eleven, in- was when I opened the volume and cinding Mr. William Bullitt-Reu- found it to be a copy of Milton's ter. poems.
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A Yugo-Slav hangman recently postponed the execution of twol condemned murderers for 24 hours because he was tired.
Because Freddie Bartholomew, 12-year-old film star, is earning more than £250 a week in Holly- wood, the Canadian Governmen has decided to withdraw the pen sion of 36 g year granted to him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewellyn Bartholomew, who lost leg in the Great War.
volvers were later recovered. They had not been taken out of the camp.
A man recently awoke one morn-
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from shock.
Some folks don't know when stop. An 18-year-old girl was ried recently. At the dding ce - Tevolvers recently feast there was an unlimited supply mysteriously disappeared from the of wine and brandy. The result? bury at the RAF camp at Bride trampled on and severely Wendover Police throughout the hurt. Five guests injured and one
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